Women are routinely degraded for entertainment in popular culture, from rap to reality TV. It’s packaged and sold as empowering and ‘good for women’.
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One of the more satisfying aspects of conspiracy theorising is, sometimes, they might just be right.
These books had our academics gripped until their final pages.
Britney Spears’ memoir illustrates once again the potential lifelong damage that can be caused by being a child star.
What do we love about seeing children perform? And how do their performances shape our understanding of childhood?
The legacy of eugenics is still active in the U.S. Paternalistic attitudes and policies on the reproductive agency of disabled people is one way it manifests.
Spears’ battle to end her conservatorship may lead to reforms.
The discovery of oil and gas made members of the Osage Nation among the richest people in the world. But it also made them targets for exploitation.
Australia doesn’t have ‘conservatorships’ but rather guardianship and financial management laws for each state and territory.
Family members seeking to control women artists isn’t new. In the 1920s, doctors thought sculptor Camille Claudel could be released from the care of an asylum, but her family refused.
Conservatorships significantly restrict people’s ability to make decisions for themselves. Other options can provide support while maintaining respect for autonomy.
The case of Britney Spears, who is trying to end her father’s conservatorship, illustrates why the legal arrangement is rife for abuse.
Once, the way we viewed celebrities was framed by the legacy press and the entertainment industry. Now fans and social media are rewriting the script.
Imma let you finish, but there’s more to memes than you think.
Want to stop kids from sliding academically over the summer? Why not trust them to make their own reading choices?
Put Britney Spears into a YouTube search and the third auto-fill on the list is “Britney Spears without Autotune”. Auto-Tune has become the music industry equivalent of doping in the Tour de France circa…
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